Energy Biz - July/August 2008 - (Page 40n) Washington, DC • September 22-25, 2008 TM Wednesday September 24 GridWeek Keynotes The Honorable Samuel Bodman, Secretary of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), is the invited keynote speaker to address major government initiatives in advancing a smart grid. Joining Mr. Bodman will be Mr. Enrique Santacana, President and Chief Executive Officer of ABB North America, who will offer industry leaders’ views on instituting a smart grid, and as a member of DOE’s recently formed Electricity Advisory Committee, will present insights on important areas that this senior counsel Committee is chartered to address. A panel session on “Current Smart Grid Activities” will follow, comprising members representing leaders of the Federal and State regulatory bodies, leading industry trade associations, and Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators. sion explores the ramifications of added intelligence to enterprise asset management. thing called interoperability. What do we mean by interoperability? How can agreement on standards support interoperability? What are people doing to advance interoperability? And how can this benefit the electricity consumer? This track explores these questions in a series of three sessions focused on fundamentals, standards, and the consumer. New Business Models FOLLOW THE MONEY! Deployment of the smart grid will create new opportunities for utilities, consumers and others to develop new business models. These panels will look at the business models that are and can be created using the smart grid as their basis. The panels will look at business models from three perspectives, an IT overlay over utility operations, business opportunities on the utility/supplier side of the meter, and business opportunities on the consumer side of the meter. Interoperability Fundamentals What do we mean when a smart device or system is interoperable? This session explores the various facets of interoperability in layman’s terms and provides an overview of the efforts underway to advance interoperability. The attendee will be introduced to concepts and tools whose purpose is to make integration easier, operation predictable, and maintenance routine. The benefits of interoperability will also be explored. Smart Grid from a Utility Chief Information Officer Perspective This panel will convene utility CIOs and other IT experts to discuss the benefits of smart grid as a platform for integrating disparate data systems within the CIO’s scope of responsibility. This panel will examine productivity enhancements that can be realized by using service-oriented architectures to integrate existing data systems across smart grids as well as cyber-security issues and implications. Utility Operational Efficiencies The Intelligent Utility Network, or Smart Grid, is an enabler of significant changes, not only for the consumers but especially for the utility. When properly designed and deployed its influence permeates every aspect of the utility’s business. This track looks at three different areas of a utility and how a well-designed Intelligent Utility Network helps to improve the operational efficiencies in each area. The first session discusses the impact on Customer relations and the ability to be more responsive. The second revolves around the actual grid management including outage management and prevention. Finally, the third session addresses the impact on the enterprise asset management operations such as workforce management, documentation management and asset management. Standards, Landscape, and Directions Developing standards that become widely adopted by system and device suppliers is arguably the best thing that can be done to advance interoperability. But what forms do standards take? Who is developing them and how do they achieve wide adoption? Can we have one standard that ensures full interoperability? Do they make us more vulnerable to cyber security and privacy attacks? And what about legacy systems or stifling future innovation issues? This session describes the landscape of smart grid related standards efforts, and introduces NIST’s task in the Energy Indepence and Security Act of 2007 to, ‘coordinate the development of a framework to achieve interoperability of smart grid devices and systems.’ Delivering Sustainable Energy Smart Grid from Utility / Wholesale Market Perspective This panel will discuss the benefits of the smart grid as the framework for optimizing and integrating existing and future resources. The panel will examine the reliability benefits of being able to better monitor and operate generation and transmission resources in real-time; of using automated demand-side resources to for system operations; to clip peaks to increase utilization factors and defer new capacity investments; to increase the size and durability of customer participation in DR programs; and to better integrate renewable resources into the grid. Putting Information in the hands of the Customer Relations front line The Intelligent Utility Network can significantly improve the aspects of the business not normally associated with electricity distribution. This session will explore how information gleaned from the intelligent network enables utilities to provide smarter, faster and more proactive service to its customers through more effective customer care, customer management and improved customer information systems. Consumer Participation: Integrating Demand-side Resources A smart grid benefits consumers by allowing electricity providers do their jobs better, but a smart grid also allows consumers to become participants in the operation of the electric system. Given appropriate signals and incentives, automation can allow demand-side resources to respond to stresses on the system, take advantage of light loading deals, and support the integration of new electricity resources, such as distributed generation, and environmentally sensitive technologies. This session explores what interoperability means to the consumer and the issues involved to integrate demand-side resources in system operations. Smart Grid from a Customer Point of View This panel will convene commercial and industrial customers to discuss the benefits of smart grid as a tool that empowers customers to optimize their consumption by providing more efficient time-differentiated price signals. The panel will emphasize the importance of preserving customer control over their loads, but will consider ways for customers to realize new value by disaggregating their loads and adjusting specific components differentially based on a time-differentiated price (e.g., using buildings for thermal storage). Grid Efficiencies: Anticipated or Real? Everyone expects a smart grid to enable significant improvements in outage prevention, meter reading, direct response and load management. But what really happening in the real world of smart grid deployment. This session will look at the real world results, both expected and unexpected. GridWeek Recognition Dinner There are many thought leaders and visionaries charting the path to broad adoption of Smart Grid, and with any growing community, it is critical that they are recognized and applauded for their actions and endeavors. In the second year of the Smart Grid Awards, the organizers will call attention to these individuals by presenting awards in several key categories designed to promote greater and more rapid adoption of Smart Grid. Leveraging Information to improve Enterprise Asset Management Tracking a mobile workforce, assets and supplies are a critical function of a utility’s overall opera14tions. Leveraging the improved information flowing from an Intelligent Utility Network allows utilities to become more proactive and efficient in the deployment of resources and tracking of assets. This ses- Interoperability of a Smart Grid The smart grid is all about making connections, sharing information, and putting automation to work to perform existing jobs more efficiently, making previously nonviable tasks practical, and discovering new value propositions unheard of today. The key to integrating the components of a smart grid is some- Delivering Sustainable Energy
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